100 years of Rome's Keats-Shelley house where crowds still flock to the Spanish Steps to check each other out & drink in the atmosphere. 5 years ago
Happy Christmas to our friends on the continent who celebrate it today. Peace, love and best wishes to the world, from London. 5 years ago
Another loss for the arts this week: RIP Vaclav Havel, playwright and icon of the Velvet Revolution that finally gave Czechs/Slovaks freedom 5 years ago
RIP George Whitman, from one of the 'tumbleweeds' who slept amongst the books at Shakespeare & Company in Paris. An era draws to a close. 5 years ago
Brussels: feels funny to be here in London on this day. Is it us, or everyone else? Is this island nation fiscally wise, or just xenophobic? 5 years ago
